The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-09
A sroRY OF A MISSING WOMAN.


DR.. Chisholm made an examination of the
body, and his testimony was that the wo-
man was between % and 80 years Of age,
and white. and that she came to her death
from fracture of the ethnoid bone, caused
by a blow with some blunt instrument
The Coroner also took the testimony of
farmer Carter, which was substantially
given yesterday When Mr.. Love, the tele-
graph operator, made his statement.
ne gave a story that was some ,nat
man named Thompson and his wife lived
on Harris Point Thompson was fisher
man and hauled oysters in the season. A
Norwegian sailer went to Mrs. Thompson
and told her that Thompson had another
wife. AS soon as Thompson returned to the
house his wife asked him whether the story
was true, and thereupon ensued a
bitter quarrel, so bitter that Mrs. Thomp-
son became afraid of her husband. He
tried to get her to enter his boat one day to
go somewhere, but she would not do it, for
she feared he would throw her overheard.
A little over month ago Mrs. Thompson
resolved to leave her husband, so she left
home one day and walked to Beaulieu.
There she met several of her acquaintance
whom she told of her flight from home, and
she promised them that she would write in
four or five days and let them know where
since then she has never been seen.
THE MURDERED WOMAN IDENTIFIED.
In height she compared with the body
found; her hair was a reddish brown, as
was also that of the dead woman's. She
disappeared about a month ago, and Dr.
Chisholm said that the body had laid in the
woods not less than thirty days. These
facts, put together, clearly point to the
identity of the dead woman as Mrs. Thomp-
son, though there is no positive proof that
it was she who was murdered After these
facts had been heard the usual verdict in
such cases, of death from blows inflicted by
some blunt instrument in the hands of a
person or persons unknown, was written and
the jury signed 1t. The body was then
placed in the coffin and borne to the grave.
When it had been lowered, Rev. Dr. Mat
thews, of st. Philips church, Savannah, read
a portion of the burial service that the un-
fortunate woman should not go to her grave
without burial rites and when he had con-
cluded the earth was thrown in and the
mound heaped up, and then the lockers on
left her to lie but few feet from where she
had fallen, and they returned to the city.
A CLUE TO THE MURDERER.
Late last night Mr. Robider, who has a
store on the White Bluff road, stated that
from some negroes in his neighborhood he
heiu HlShcd up sollC WHICH, IL
true, would lead to the arrest of the muir
derer. The obtaining of this information
from negroes, together with the fact
that the musket was one such
as is never used by any but
negroes points very strongly toward some
negro as the murderer Mr. Robider de-
clined to tell what information he had re-
ceived, but he says he intends to investigate
it, and if it is true, to bring the criminal to
justice. Whether the trails which those in
terested are now working are true or false
they will serve goodpurpose, for they will
keep the hunt going until finally the perpe-
traitor of that foul crime will be brought to
i1stice